Brickfield Works (sample) trades like any local business. The difference is who owns it and where the money goes.
We are a community interest company (sample), started in 2014 in an empty brick warehouse by the canal. Today the yard holds a canteen, a bike workshop, a print room and rooms for local groups.
We sell at fair prices and pay at least the real living wage. What is left over pays for the next paid traineeship, not for shareholders.
Four rules in our articles (sample). They are why the yard can never be sold off for private profit.
The building and any profit belong to the community company. By law they can only be used for the benefit of Springfield.
One member, one vote. Members elect the board each year and can stand for it themselves.
Everyone is paid at least the local real living wage, trainees included, from the first day.
We publish our accounts every summer, split the same way as the receipt below.
Last year the canteen, the workshop, the print room and the rooms took in $432,000 (sample accounts). This is where every dollar went.
The traineeship fund is the surplus. Members vote on how it is spent at the annual meeting.
Brickfield Works (sample)
Community interest company
Year to 31 March 2026
Canteen sales212,400
Bike workshop96,800
Print room74,300
Room hire18,500
Grants for traineeships30,000
Total income$432,000
Where the $432,000 went
Wages, trainees and staff236,000
Food, parts, ink, paper98,500
Rent, power, insurance46,200
Traineeship fund51,300
Twelve traineeships finished this year (sample accounts).
Elected by members at the annual meeting. Board members are volunteers and are not paid.
Chair, member since 2015 (sample)
Treasurer (sample)
Secretary (sample)
Former trainee, now workshop supervisor (sample)
Local business member (sample)
General manager, staff seat (sample)
One $25 share makes you a member with a vote. Buy it at the canteen till or send us a message.